Zeigler will not meet commissioners without his attorney

Tuesday

Jul 27, 2010 at 12:01 AMJul 27, 2010 at 8:03 AM

Stark County Treasurer Gary Zeigler said Tuesday that he will not attend the county commissioners’ board meeting set for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Two weeks ago, the two sides had tentatively said they would meet again Wednesday, but Zeigler said his attorney will be out of town.

Kelli Young

He may be on the board’s agenda, but Stark County Treasurer Gary Zeigler said Tuesday that he will not attend the county commissioners’ meeting Wednesday.

Zeigler said that his attorney will be out of town Wednesday and doesn’t want him to meet with commissioners alone. He did not know when he might meet with the three-member board again.

In the meantime, Zeigler said he and his attorney have been preparing information to answer the questions that commissioners posed when they met in a closed-door session two weeks ago. During that meeting, the two sides had tentatively planned to meet again Wednesday.

Zeigler said he has been trying to find out when some of the office’s policies and procedures were established. A document that Zeigler circulated two weeks ago said that roughly a dozen procedures and policies were new as of May 2009 — a month after Zeigler fired his former chief deputy treasurer on suspicion of theft. Zeigler said Tuesday that he has found some policies that were established before he became treasurer in 1999.

“We’re trying to get the dates to commissioners so they know which ones we added and the ones we revised,” Zeigler said.

Never miss a story

Choose the plan that's right for you.
Digital access or digital and print delivery.